I think we, as human beings, go through certain cycles of fear/non-fear. It’s seems to be easy to be unafraid when you’re young, but then life happens and your fear grows. Maybe you have more to lose or perceive reality more.

At a certain age (or when you reach a certain mentality) the fear starts ebbing away again. I think the older I get, the less fear I have because I’ve learned through the years that worst-case scenarios rarely happen and more often than not, what we feared never really materialize.

Thanks for the response, Karen

@Karen- I’ve read some of Pavlina’s work and I find it incredibly valuable but very clinical. To me anyway.

I wrote the parable to describe the way I felt within myself throughout the majority of my life. For some reason, I grew up experiencing a certain fear, about many things, and this fear dominated my thoughts. I knew that there was a way to escape—and I was wild and willful as hell—but I was always afraid. Fear ruled me.

Because this all was happening within myself, unlike Sara, I didn’t have the option to leave. I HAD to stay and fight. And I realized that through my struggle, the more I surrendered, the free-er (not a word, but oh well) I felt.

Thanks for the comments! .-= Mike Siete Cinco´s last blog ..Day 7: I WANT TO WIN, Eating Fast Food and Wage Slave Rebels =-.

I agree that slavery is a state of mind. It’s crazy how much of our power we give away to pieces of paper. Pavlina has a great similar article which made me think of slavery while in a cubicle: http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2009/10/you-vs-the-cubicle/

Sometimes it’s so easy to do option 3 – do nothing. We must keep in mind that the struggle to unleash the shackles are worth it.

Interesting article.